Myth Quotes

992 Myth quotes by 711 unique authors

All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with… — Wallace Stevens
The women of today are in a fair way to dethrone the myth of femininity; they are beginning to affirm their independence in concrete ways;… — Simone de Beauvoir
What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors. — James A. Baldwin
I'd never met a woman I considered as intelligent as me. That sounds bigheaded, but every woman I met was either a dolly-chick, or a… — John Lennon
The South is one of those kingdoms of the mind, like India or Scotland, that are neat and understandable only to people who have never… — Alistair Cooke
No myth dies harder, and none is more regularly debunked by the facts, than the one about international sports contributing to international friendship. — Alistair Cooke
The American myth is of free will in its simple, primary sense. One can choose oneself and will oneself; and this absurdly optimistic assumption so… — John Fowles
Information and inspiration are everywhere... history, art, architecture, everything an illustrator needs. Europe is, after all, the land that has generated most of the enduring… — John Howe
Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet no words to… — Italo Calvino
Ideology is the sterner face of myth and we're a myth-making people. — Diana Trilling
The whole dear notion of one's own Self-marvelous old free-willed, free- enterprising, autonomous, independent, isolated island of a Self- is a myth. — Lewis Thomas
The rationalist mind has always had its doubts about Venice. The watery city receives a dry inspection, as though it were a myth for the… — Mary McCarthy
A myth is an old lie that people believe in. White people believe that they're better than anyone else on earth - and that's a… — Ernest Gaines
It took some time to gather the research and develop it into the storyline, and to finally finish an origin myth poem that I had… — Jean M. Auel
I do not know who first invented the myth of sexual equality. But it is a myth willfully fostered and nourished by certain semi-scientists and… — Phyllis McGinley
You know, I didn't have enough money to quit my day job... the myth of the major label deal. Nowadays, you have a tour bus… — Mary Chapin Carpenter
I was initially planning to write about grief in terms of Eurydice and the myth thereof. By that point the overall metaphor of height and… — Julian Barnes
America is the world's living myth. There's no sense of wrong when you kill an American or blame America for some local disaster. This is… — Don DeLillo
There can't be a pure myth, especially when the myth has been handed down in the oral tradition. As the stories are told, they change.… — Maxine Hong Kingston
Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that… — Jonathan Raban
One of the oddest features of western Christianized culture is its ready acceptance of the myth of the stable family and the happy marriage. We… — Jonathan Raban
The tricky or boastful gods of ancient myths and primitive folk tales are characters of the same kind that turn up in Faulkner or Tennessee… — Northrop Frye
True friendships don't fade in Hollywood, as so many myths about show business would have you insist. — Kent McCord
A too often forgotten truth is that you can live through actual events of history and completely miss the underlying reality of what's going. What… — Tom Harpur
Bands that I've loved over the years are the ones that have a certain myth around them. — Karen O

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